Desperate Tom Watson Foolish to Consider Tiger Woods for Ryder Cup Team

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Published: August 11, 2014

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We know it's tough out there, Tom Watson, and that your prospective three captain's picks for the U.S. Ryder Cup team seem to be dropping like flies batted in midair by God's personal fly swatter.

But please, get a grip here.

We know from watching you play so competitively at the PGA Championship, and from those engaging television interviews you did, that you aren't going soft in the head or body.

So why can't you see the foolishness of continuing to entertain this notion that Tiger Woods, in his current state of health and mind, can somehow help this year's Ryder Cup team?

Yet there was Watson on Monday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, saying once again that he's not ready to rule out the possibility of placing Woods on the U.S. team that will take on the defending champion Europeans in Gleneagles, Scotland, Sept. 26-28. 



"The most important thing is his health," Watson told reporters at Valhalla on Monday (via the Chicago Tribune). "I've said it consistently all the way through the issue with Tiger after his injury. If he's healthy and is playing well, I'll pick him. Right now, his health is not good.

"He is Tiger Woods and he brings a lot to the team, if he has the ability to play and he's healthy. He brings a lot to the team. And I'd be a] fool not to consider him."

Maybe Watson is playing mind games with the Europeans, who likely aren't exactly shaking in their golf spikes at the thought of taking on the Americans as presently constituted. Watson's first nine players became official at the conclusion of the PGA Championship based on the number of FedEx points they had earned.

The top nine Americans ended up being Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Jim Furyk, Jimmy Walker, Phil Mickelson, Matt Kuchar, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed and Zach Johnson.

Watson's squad already is without long-h...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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